Artist's lap easel
OwnerRobert P. Huttoninventor
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Abstract
An artist's lap easel is made up of a number of flat rectangular panels which are hingedly joined together so that they can be folded flat one upon another when not in use and opened up to provide a tilted easel surface with an adjoining horizontal palette surface to one side of the easel. A portion of a supporting panel can be tilted upwardly and separably fastened to the easel to support it when tilted and a portion of the palette section can be similarly upwardly tilted, the tilted portion being provided with at least one pocket for supplies. At least one of the panels includes a cutout portion to serve as a carrying handle.
Claims13
An artist's lap easel comprising a plurality of thin generally rectangular panels hingedly joined together at certain of their respective margins to enable said panels to be folded one upon another for carrying and to provide when opened for use:
- a supporting panel hingedly joined to an easel panel at a common adjacent margin to provide a first fold line for upwardly tilting of the easel panel;
- said supporting panel comprising two substantially rigid sheets hingedly joined together along a second fold line parallel with and spaced from the first fold line, one of the sheets being upwardly tilted to position the easel panel when in use, and detachable fastener means to maintain said adjusted tilted position;
- a palette panel hingedly joined to said supporting panel along a third fold line normal to said second fold line to be supported coplanar with said supporting panel and to one side of the tilted easel panel when in use;
- said palette panel comprising two substantially rigid sheets hingedly joined together along a fold line in alignment with said second fold line, that portion of the palette panel which is joined to the upwardly tiltable portion of the supporting panel being provided with a pocket accessible from the top when so tilted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.